Written By Ellen Weber, PhD and Robyn McMaster, PhD
Higher Education and Brain Based Benefits
Challenges of Change
Renewal is to the university community today what Renaissance was to the Middle Ages. Both encompass a resurgence of learning. Both tap into more potential from the human brain. To reconfigure university teaching for a rebirth [...]
Read vision statements that affirm secondary and university renewal, and you’ll spot innovative learning opportunities for all. Observe classes in these same schools, though, and practical results appear far less impressive. Have you noticed that a school’s intent, and its classroom practices too often differ when it comes to renewed learning and assessment opportunities for [...]
It’s now believed that you have both angel and devil brain parts and these two forces stay in consistent battle for your actions. Do you agree? Researchers looked at activity in the brain for healthy and unhealthy food choices and what they found may surprise you.
Angel brain parts help people to consider abstract decisions such [...]
When entire systems such as finances, health care or higher education, break down, corrupt and confound intelligent people, it’s time to power up the brain and reboot ethical practices to simplify. How so?
Beyond the clutter of financial policies, written to confuse honest tax payers, lies opportunity for a simply stated and ethical economy. Who will [...]
Spot any gap where you live or work, regardless of how small, and you may well be staring into the eyeballs of your own destiny. How so?
Even though I taught university classes and facilitated top leaders around the world for many years, it still surprises me how few people ever discuss the proven wonder of [...]
Rejuvenated secondary schools stoke life, zap brainpower, and replace mental myths with brain facts that reboot learning success. Secondary and higher education renewal, at least change for higher motivation and achievement though, takes faculty, parents and learners. Reconfiguration starts when a learning community identifies myths and seeks to live realities at the peak. How so?
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If you knew more about the human brain, and it did nothing to improve your day, the discoveries would be rather useless. The opposite is also true when you choose to live beyond mental myths.
Reflect on rarely considered facts about your brain, and these insights can inspire a brain powered day with unexpected twists for [...]
How many times do participants speak and feel heard when you present new ideas? Facilitation skill allows people to speak and ethically nudges steller interests and abilities toward a shared finish line for quality growth. How so?
1. Question possibilities by raising one umbrella query to launch your presentation. Lectures tell – while questions hold opposing [...]
Are you living more myths pushed by cynics than mental realities from innovators? You’ll know by how much success or failure you meet on a daily basis. To achieve more success, for instance, you’ll want to burst through mental myths and begin to ride the adventures of reality. How so?
Whenever you question mental myths, using [...]
Add life-changing brainpower through replacing mental myths with brain facts that reboot your brain.
1. MYTH:Other people or work bore you and that’s why you’re not getting ahead as you’d like.
Reality: Boredom is more a habit formed in brains, and shaped by your choices, than a reality.
2. MYTH isorganized or unpleasant settings have [...]
